Question: When I face an obstacle, can I ask the Creator what response He expects from me?

Answer: You can ask not only during obstacles but at any time.

Question: How can I clearly catch the Creator’s response and not just the response of my mind?

Answer: Ask to understand His obstacles correctly, to draw the right conclusions, and to discover the Creator’s joy in your proper response to the obstacle.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Question: Rabash writes those who have a point in the heart are given the opportunity to know they can enjoy spiritual things. Therefore, we look at those who enjoy material things as small children. Such a state can lead to arrogance. What should we do about it?

Answer: Nothing can be done about it. You just need to understand what I enjoy and what I strive for. Then, everything will fall into place.

Question: If joy is the illumination of the Creator and fulfillment, can we turn judgments into joy, and how can we do it?

Answer: For now it is enough to determine whether you are in a state of connection or similarity with the Creator or not. The rest will come.

Question: Through our prayers, requests, and appeals, we hold on to the Creator. We feel that we are growing in our own eyes all the time, and this gives us joy. On what point should all our attention and thoughts be concentrated?

Answer: On what I am doing for the Creator at the moment. Just because I feel good doesn’t mean anything.

Question: What is there to rejoice about on the day of judgment?

Answer: About the fact that we have tried during this year, as in prior years, maybe even more successfully, to raise ourselves to the level of the highest court. This is a very high level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Joy?”

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Question: Who reveals Hisaron (deficiency) to a friend: one’s evil inclination or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: Can a person raise his own Hisaron to the Creator or do his friends have to?

Answer: He does it with them together.

Question: We often raise our friend’s Hisaron to the Creator so He would connect us on a new level. But there is a fear that a person’s condition could change, and he would be filled in his egoistic Kelim; for example, he will be cured, find a job, etc. How do we work with that?

Answer: We do not consider the side effects because the most important thing for us is to feel united in a single intention in which the Creator would be revealed.

Question: How can we wish to come to a single prayer? Is it very hard?

Answer: It is not very hard. You must start from afar and gradually narrow the field of view so the Creator is in its center.

Question: So we don’t have to wait for some abstract Hisaron, but should work with one the Creator reveals to us now?

Answer: Of course. At any given moment, you can manifest it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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Question: How can we make our prayer truly effective?

Answer: You need to encourage each other so that everyone feels a desire to rise higher and pull everyone else along, like when climbing a mountain. Then you will receive the Creator’s response, which will definitely satisfy you.

Question: Can Kabbalists encourage each other like this to make a collective ascent during a lesson or a congress?

Answer: Of course, they can. That is exactly what they do. It only seems to us that an ascent can happen in one move, but that is not true. Here we encounter problems that we must solve at every moment and divide our spiritual progress strictly according to our capacities; meaning, we need to give it more attention in order to remain in the quality of bestowal and constantly ask the Creator to fulfill us.

Question: We say that we do not strive for suffering but for unity. But if there is no suffering, I would not want to ascend. How do we break this cycle?

Answer: Your friends will help you with that. When you feel yourself in an ascent, through your connection with them, you will also feel yourself in a descent. This will create the desire in you to connect with them and rise together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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On the last day of the Sukkot holiday, we must combine all our requests into one big cry for salvation—Hoshana Rabbah. If we talked about it all the days of the holiday, studied, and wanted to feel what was happening to us, then, of course, at the end of the holiday we can collect all these occurrences and come to great salvation.

We want all the requests we raised during the holiday to come together and make us feel an immense need for great salvation.

We ask the Creator for salvation, that is for conditions under which the light can be revealed through us. We have been preparing for this all the days of Sukkot; otherwise, we would have neither the right desire nor the right shade. The cry comes through as a reward for the effort.

The Creator conceals how close we are to salvation with this shade if we turn to Him with this exalted and powerful request: “Creator, save us!”

Just as the Creator creates a shade for His light and gradually raises us stage by stage, we need to accept this shade and try to see it as a means to rise above reason, above the shade, to come to the light of faith. When we come to such a need, it is already the beginning of salvation.

The state when a person comes to the desire to live in the light of faith is called the night of Hoshana Rabbah. During all the days of the holiday, he revealed an ever-stronger inner desire for salvation, because every day, more and more light of correction was revealed to him. And he rejoices that he has reached a realization and a feeling that only the Creator can and is ready to save him.

The light of faith is revealed in the Kli that a person prepares by his refusal to receive the light directly and by his desire to remain in the shade. We need to achieve such a connection with the Creator when He shines on us, but we do not want to receive this light directly and push it away, wishing to resemble the action of the light in relation to the Creator.

Thus, our correct attitude toward the Creator is also called light. This is how we begin to feel the light completing all our work. The Creator gives us an example of how we can give to Him in the same way He gives to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/24, “Hoshana Rabbah”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 103

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma“

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To guarantee our staying in the land, then the facts before us pose a great threat to us, since matters are developing favorably for our enemies, who seek to destroy us from the face of the Earth.

It is also clear that the enormous effort that the rugged road ahead requires of us mandates unity that is as solid and as hard as steel, from all parts of the nation, without exception (Baal HaSulam, The Nation).

Baal HaSulam issued that warning 85 years ago when in the newspaper he wrote and published. But we see that from the very birth of the nation of Israel until the present day that we have been accompanied by internal separation, and despite all the suffering and difficult circumstances we have endured, the people are unable to unite. This has been intentionally arranged as preparation for the correction that our people must carry out thereby setting an example for all other nations.

Meanwhile, we are incapable of uniting even under the condition that external pressure holds us together like nuts in a sack. Nevertheless, throughout our long history, we have been forced to take steps toward greater closeness with each other, to becoming more aware, and to agreeing that someday our unity will indeed become a reality.

A nation that has existed in separation, both material and spiritual, for thousands of years and until today, will eventually rise, desire to correct itself, and pull all of humanity along with it.

Especially these days, on the anniversary of the tragic events of October 7^th, we must realize the necessity of uniting and consolidating the nation into one union. We should recall our history to see how time and time again we encounter the same problems in our development and are unable to deal with them properly, which allows them to grow to enormous proportions until we begin to fight them. And so, it repeats year after year.

I hope that our Bnei Baruch group will be able to bring about this transition of the entire nation to complete unity around which all the nations of the world will unite and see their future in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/24, Baal HaSulam “The Nation”

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Sukkot is temporary residence. …they said, “Leave the permanent residence and dwell in temporary residence” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 96, “What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?”).

When a person leaves his permanent home, he finds himself in a state without a home. Therefore, he must surely find a place where he can “land.” This is a temporary dwelling. One begins to feel he can get comfortable there.

When a person reaches such a state, even while still in the process of searching, he begins to understand what his permanent home and temporary home mean. By agreeing to a temporary home, he feels how much the Creator brings him closer to Himself and is filled with a sense of happiness.

This is the Sukkot holiday, when a person leaves his permanent home and goes into a field or a forest, it doesn’t matter where, and arranges for a temporary dwelling for himself there.

Therefore, a temporary dwelling, a hut, is not intended for living in it but only for moving from one level to another. While a permanent home is a corrected Kli, it is a home we must return to.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, “Sukkot”

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Question: It is said that we should strive for a state of rest, but what about the Kabbalistic postulate: “If not me, then who?” How can you be at peace if the Creator expects you to act?

Answer: At the same time you can be at peace because you consider this state to be the most stable, the most correct.

Question: Does the degree of rest depend on our choice?

Answer: Yes, it does.

Question: Can I determine my state by the influence of the power of rest on me?

Answer: No, not yet. You have to enter and exit the state of rest into the opposite several times while trying not only to achieve peace, but also actual spiritual actions, and then you will begin to feel your place in the system of forces.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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Question: It is said that a complete righteous person is one who has corrected their past. What does that mean?

Answer: To correct the past means that you no longer reveal current or especially past transgressions because all of them are transformed into entirely just and proper actions. Such a person is called a complete righteous (Tzadik Gamur).

Question: But is it possible to correct the past?

Answer: Of course. Past transgressions are covered by present correction, so we should not worry about them. They will be corrected along the way.

In principle, the past, present, and future exist only in relation to our perceptions. In reality, none of these truly exist.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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